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I guess the question we need to answer is if Twitter is a public square? Or should be? I thin it's no to the first, and maybe to the second. In any case it's n
by cmurf 4y ago
I guess the question we need to answer is if Twitter is a public square? Or should be? I thin it's no to the first, and maybe to the second.
In any case it's not currently public property, so users don't have a right to be on Twitter.
But is it a place of public accommodation? And if so, how does that bind Twitter? If someone talks enough trash that it's clear they want to start a fight, a bar can kick that person out. No question. But what if they're kicked out unfairly? What is the line the bar can't cross in kicking people out, and is that a suitable line in the sand to use for Twitter? I don't know.
Do we need a cyberspace public square? I think we do. Should it be Twitter? What would that look like? Public-private adventure?
- olliej 4y agoLiterally the entire argument musk made for re-allowing a bunch of people who had been banned for calling for LGBT people to be allowed or assaulted, or for more generally being nazi-supporting shitheads, was that twitter is a public square, and that he is a free speech absolutist. So the problem people are having is that he still gets to come out in public talking about free speech, when that is objectively bullshit, or that any of the changes being made have anything to do with "free speech".
- cmurf 4y agoIf Twitter were owned by any local, state, or the federal government, I'd agree it's a public square. But it's owned by an corporation. And it can say one thing but do another, or even change it's mind on a whim.
- anigbrowl 4y agoLot of people (not including you) walking around sounding like this lately: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-tell-lies https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-t...
- jacooper 4y agoThese are not lies though? Elon said he wants free speech to the extent the law allows, yet now goes on banning spree
- jakelazaroff 4y agoThey're saying that Elon was very obviously lying from the start, yet many people credulously believed him.
- jakelazaroff 4y ago> Do we need a cyberspace public square? I think we do. Why is the web not that public square? Your website is your own personal space. No one can tell you what to do there. No one can stop you from speaking.
- cmurf 4y agoTwitter is not the web. Twitter's website is Musk's personal space. User's have no rights. If you disagree, point to where those rights come from. A public square is property owned by a government. In the U.S. anyone can place themselves on public property and speak without being inhibited by the government. That is not true in all countries, and even in the US is not true on private property.
- acedTrex 4y agoBingo, the web is already a public space. You dont need a more specific one